Word: paragraphed
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...French handed him a paragraph to be inserted in a speech he was making in Tangier: "Look especially to France, lovers of liberty ..." But when it came time to deliver the speech, Ben Youssef ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
Represented by tireless and ingenious lawyers, the Reader's Digest Killers (as they came to be known), ran through the whole book of the law, got nine stays of execution. One of their appeals was based on a paragraph in a Reader's Digest article which told how a Yiddish-speaking cop was stationed near the defendants at their trial to eavesdrop as they spoke to each other...
Last week Zwicky found himself in a curious situation. Acting under Paragraph 2-203 of the Armed Forces Industrial Security Regulations, which refuses clearance to aliens who have not applied for naturalization, the Department of Defense lifted his clearance. Zwicky, his head packed with vital secrets, could have no further contact with the classified projects that he has been supervising...
...there are others, too, who fear a Blank check. They protested that Adenauer's three-paragraph emergency bill set precedents without creating safeguards. By a unanimous vote, the Bundesrat (where Adenauer usually has his way) sent his bill back with a demand for clarification of policy...
Rubin praises only one of Wolfe's four completed novels unequivocally, and that is Look Homeward, Angel. Autobiographical like all this completed novels, Look Homeward Angel treats the first twenty years of Wolfe's life. In his concluding paragraph, Rubin states that Look Homeward, Angel "is a novel, composed of memories stored up when the rememberer 'saw things whole', and saw them in depth . . . The first novel . . . was the unified and successive record of moments in which the author felt the sensation of stopping chronological time and transcend physical place...